Veterans at the End of Life

Alarming statistics about the number of American veterans facing tough end of life decisions, and one hospice doing its best to help:

A quarter of Americans facing the end of life today are veterans, and they often experience specific challenges related to their military service. Delaware Hospice is emerging as a national leader in helping vets and their families with this difficult transition.

"An impressive, meaningful, and often courageous chorus of voices tackling a once-taboo subject with dignity..."

-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Truly gripping narratives that illuminate a hard truth about death in our culture: it is always so complicated, so much thornier than we think. ... [The] authors, and editor Lee Gutkind, deserve credit for being unsparingly honest about doctoring, about decision-making, about their own ambivalent emotions. They have a lot to teach us."